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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
He who excuses himself accuses himself.
No one ever excused his way to success.
No one ever excused his way to success.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
