"I have done nothing important or distinguished since……" — Arthur Balfour
"I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick."
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28 Quotes by Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Enthusiasm moves the world.
- It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
- Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
- Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
- He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of…
- I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
- I never forgive, but I always forget.
- But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
- Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
- Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its…
- Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have…
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