Quote #17

Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, has its application to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

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  1. The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
  2. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
  3. In an ideal University, the force of living example should fire the student with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of learned men, a…
  4. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
  5. That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
  6. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, wh…
  7. I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimabl…
  8. The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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