The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact — it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact — it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact — it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact — it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact — it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
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The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact

— it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
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We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in dang — but these are too humble to be convinced.
It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos — for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.
What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles — it was a miraculous world.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right — it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox — that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly — the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a — I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.
Thrift is poetic because it is creative — waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock — but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.
A man cannot deserve adventures — he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
The pure modernist is merely a snob — he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt — they are forbidden to believe.