Dorothy Nevill quotes
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“The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.”
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold
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“conversation is now pretty well a lost art.”
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold
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“For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.”
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1910). “Under Five Reigns”, London : Methuen
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“A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...”
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”
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“The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.”
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”
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“If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world ...”
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”
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“One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.”
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“It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.”
-- Dorothy NevillSource : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1907). “The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Arnold
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“People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.”
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Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
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“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
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