A little man often cast a long shadow.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg.
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
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