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- THe soul of most conservatism is sentimentality, and sentimentality, and sentimentality preserves the good and the bad with indiscriminate relish.
- Gwyn Thomas
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- There is no possible line of conduct which has art some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.
- William Lecky
- The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live.
- Mortimer Adler
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- A commentary on the times is that the word "honesty" is now preceded by "old-fashioned."
- Larry Wolters
- If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you don't have a heart, but if you are still an idealist by thirty you don't have a head.
- Randolph Bourne
- When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
- R. C. Sherriff
- I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which americans submit to speeches.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
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