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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
My desolation does begin to make
A better life.
My desolation does begin to make
A better life.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive,
with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars read more
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive,
with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with
cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense
of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of
manhood by treating men as men.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy read more
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.
A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
Every reform needs examples more than advocates
Every reform needs examples more than advocates
Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that
the new man may be raised read more
Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that
the new man may be raised up in them.