Famous quotes containing the word born:
“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I was born a mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The cooper told my father, Fanny made that barrel, and has done it quicker and better than any boy I have had after six months training. My father looked at it and said, What a pity that you were not born a boy so that you could be good for something. Run into the house, child, and go to knitting.”
—Frances D. Gage (18081884)
“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
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