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John Lubbock, 1º Barone di Avebury , è stato un archeologo britannico.

Banchiere, fu notevolmente influenzato nei suoi studi da Charles Darwin e Alfred Russel Wallace. Autore di volumi archeoantropologici come Età preistoriche e Matrimonio, totemismo e religione , per primo suddivise la preistoria in Paleolitico e Neolitico.

✵ 30. Aprile 1834 – 28. Maggio 1913
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John Lubbock: Frasi in inglese

“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”

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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

The Pleasures of Life, vol. 1 (1887), ch. II: The Happiness of Duty

“We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.”

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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation

“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.”

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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation

“There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.”

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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury libro The Use of Life

The Use of Life (1894), ch. VI: National Education <br class="br">Origine: The Use of Life http://archive.org/details/uselife02lubbgoog/page/n114/mode/2up on Archive.Org, pages 102—103

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