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“Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.”
― Norman Douglas, South Wind

“We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good. But we fail to give them that training in character which parents alone can give. Home influence, as Grace Aguilar conceived it—where has it gone? It strikes me that this is a grave danger for the future.”
― Norman Douglas, South Wind

“What was it Pound had said in the Cantos? “I am not a demigod—I can’t make it cohere.”
― Stephen Coonts, Deep Black

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
― Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole