The proper memory for a politician is one that knows when to remember and when to forget.
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He who hates vice hates men.John Morley
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
John Morley
There are some books that cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.
John Morley
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley
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