Quote #58

Progress can do nothing but make the most of us all as we are:

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  1. Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.
  2. We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if …
  3. The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will.
  4. Bunyan's perception that righteousness is filthy rags, his scorn for Mr Legality in the village of Morality, his defiance of the Church as …
  5. This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you…
  6. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
  7. 'Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further busi…
  8. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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