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"The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." »Schopenhauer
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"household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else." »James Thorpe
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"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household." »George Frost Kennan
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"All the blessings of a household come through the wife, therefore should her husband honour her." »The Talmud
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"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint." »Erma Bombeck
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"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown." »Homer
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"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards
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"The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe
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"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato, The Republic
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life." »Oscar Wilde
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"No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum
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"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!" »Sonjay Anand
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." »Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." »George Washington
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"America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection." »E.C. Stedman
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"The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan
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