W. C. Sellar Citas

• To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

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  Suicide, Horse, Ignorant

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• Los escoceses (originariamente irlandeses, pero ya escoceses) habitaban en esta época Irlanda, tras haber expulsado a los irlandeses (pictos) de Escocia; mientras que los pictos (originariamente escoceses) eran ahora irlandeses (vivían entre paréntesis) y viceversa. Es esencial tener bien presentes estas distinciones (y verce visa).

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  Scotch, Scotland, Mind

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• For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

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  Teaching, Wish, Taught

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• History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

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  Thinking, Remember

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• British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.

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  Years, History, Trying

  1066 and All That ch. 57 (1930). Coauthored with R. J. Yeatman.

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• Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

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  Writing, Paper, Examination

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• It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

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  Love You, Garden, Essentials

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• When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.

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  Travel, Holiday, Two

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• La Deuda Nacional es algo muy bueno y sería peligroso pagarla por miedo a la Economía Política.

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  Political, Debt, Pay

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• "I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

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  Nature, Want, Garbo

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