"Il n’est rien de plus fécond en merveilles que l’art d’être libre ; mais il n’y a rien de plus dur que l’apprentissage de la liberté" (Alexis de Tocqueville) #quotodon

They went to sleep under the stars which the maths teachers would count, the astronomy teachers would measure and the literature teachers would name. The geography teachers got lost in the woods and fell into bear traps. / T. Pratchett, The Wee Free Men #quotodon #quotesofyesterday #mastoquote #mastoqotes

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. /Walter Scott

#QuoteofYesterday #mastoquote #quotodon https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/walter_scott_155497

#QuoteofYesterday #mastoquote #mastoquotes #quotodon
I like the randomness of this one.

„Writing is hard…. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.“
—  Cheryl Strayed, book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar via https://quotepark.com/quotes/672312-cheryl-strayed-writing-is-hard-coal-mining-is-harder-do-you-th/

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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. / A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)

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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? / Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death
Random #QuoteofYesterday for the ppl of #quotodon #mastoquote

Random #QuoteofYesterday for you lovely ppl of #mastoquote #fediquote #quotodon
"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not." Mokokoma Mokhonoana https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134940-the-confessions-of-a-misfit

Good morning #quotodon ! Random #QuoteofYesterday for you lovely people :heart_fire:
[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. B. Atkinson 1951] http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html