The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
rights architecture
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.
rights wrongs
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
rights
Plato was right, but not quite right.
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'.
Yet he is right enough about there being a white magic, if he only knows where to look for it.
rights magic
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
intelligence
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
danger
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
travel
poverty
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
fame
Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
french content
For we that fight till the world is free, We are not easy in victory: We have known each other too long, my brother, And fought each other, the world and we.
victory
The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
challenge
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