Professions
- Cooper (profession), a maker of barrels and other staved vessels.
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Famous quotes containing the word professions:
“A person of twelve professions and thirteen failures.”
—Trans. by Johanna C. Prins.
Dutch expression.
“I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”
—Frances Wright (17951852)