Quotes of Flax - somelinesforyou

“ A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. ”

- Bible

“ Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3… ”

- Lionel Trilling
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