Famous quotes containing the words degenerate, singular and/or values:
“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.
“Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“With the breakdown of the traditional institutions which convey values, more of the burdens and responsibility for transmitting values fall upon parental shoulders, and it is getting harder all the time both to embody the virtues we hope to teach our children and to find for ourselves the ideals and values that will give our own lives purpose and direction.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)
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