My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly … - Jill Tweedie

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If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

Jill Tweedie

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

Bored, Change, Children, Slowly, Spent, Time

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I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

Avid, Dead, Gossips, Hate, Ideal, Reading

I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

Evil, Certain, Stills, Right, Absolute

Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

Children, Plant, See, Substitute, Too Late

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

Job, Jobs, Men, Suspect, Work

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

Issues, Merely, Moral, Race, Thinking, Word