JMJohn Morley

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John Morley

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

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02Undated

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

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03Undated

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

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04Undated

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

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05Undated

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

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06Undated

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

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07Undated

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

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08Undated

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

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09Undated

He who hates vice hates men.

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10Undated

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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11Undated

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

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