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In Practice, Such Trifles As Contradictions In Principle Are Easily Set Aside; The Faculty Of Ignoring Them Makes The Practical Man.

The Work Of Internal Government Has Become The Task Of Controlling The Thousands Of Fifth-rate Men.

Every Syllable That Can Be Struck Out Is Pure Profit, And Every Page That Can Be Economised Is A Five-per-cent Dividend. Nature Rebels Against This Rule; The Flesh Is Weak, And Shrinks From The Scissors; I Groan In Retrospect Over The Weak.

If I Grapple With Sin In My Own Strength, The Devil Knows He May Go To Sleep.

History Is The Most Aristocratic Of All Literary Pursuits, Because It Obliges The Historian To Be Rich As Well As Educated.