People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. -G. K. Chesterton

 

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.


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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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