A few days ago
seeking for helpppp!!!?
can someone out there explain to me the meaning of this quote???
“The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.”
thank you.
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It means that it is better to be a nice person than one who is forgotten.
Kinda lame – I know 🙂
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A few days ago
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
– Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 84, Houghton Mifflin (1906).
http://history.enotes.com/famous-quotes/the-kind-uncles-and-aunts-of-the-race-are-more
Basically, it means the uncles and aunts are people who do something out of the goodness of their heart, not hoping for anything in return…. rather than just what’s “expected” of the spiritual fathers and mothers, who may be doing it out of a sense of obligation only.
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