“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts”
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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts”
“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.”
“The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.”
“Active evil is better than passive good”
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted”
“It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while”
“Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence”
“Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven”
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking”
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity”
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before”
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know”
“Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive”
“Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the most out of life”
“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done”
“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid”