Dorothy Nevill famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
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conversation is now pretty well a lost art.
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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.
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A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...
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The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
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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 ...
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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 Nevill
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People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.
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I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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