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> [If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/if-a-man-wishes-to-ensure-the-bad-opinion-of-others-his-best-course/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

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## More by William Hurrell Mallock

> [Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/civilisation-is-never-so-charming-as-when-it-is-an-island-in-the/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/whatever-may-be-god-s-future-we-cannot-forget-his-past/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [“Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/most-of-man-s-finest-heroism-is-merely-disguised-necessity/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/the-landscape-of-the-mind-against-which-our-thoughts-and-expectations/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/politics-are-always-a-struggle-for-power-disguised-and-modified-by/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/socialism-may-be-worthless-as-a-scheme-but-it-is-not-meaningless-as-a/)

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> [“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/to-me-said-mr-herbert-it-seems-rather-that-the-only-hope-for-the/)

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> [No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/no-one-is-fit-to-encounter-an-adversary-s-case-successfully-unless-he/)

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> [Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/landscapes-even-when-their-general-type-is-similar-are-capable-of-as/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [“But will you be able to say what is right and what is wrong any longer, if you don’t know for whom anything is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/but-will-you-be-able-to-say-what-is-right-and-what-is-wrong-any/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/if-a-man-wishes-to-ensure-the-bad-opinion-of-others-his-best-course/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [“Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a "tip"? Or was his position so high that even to offer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/was-my-guide-a-person-who-would-expect-what-is-vulgary-called-a-tip/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [“Some will be always strong, and some will be always weak; and though, if there is no God, no divine and fatherly source of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/some-will-be-always-strong-and-some-will-be-always-weak-and-though-if/)

[William Hurrell Mallock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hurrell-mallock/)

> [“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/and-with-distance-in-time-it-is-the-same-as-with-distance-in-place/)

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> [“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hurrell-mallock/literature-i-have-always-thought-is-in-most-places-and-companies-a/)

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