“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
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“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”
“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”
“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
“The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.”
“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”
“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”
“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”
“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”
“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”