"Society, dead or alive, can have no charm……" — Arthur Balfour
"Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles."
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28 Quotes by Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour has 28 quotes on this site.
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Enthusiasm moves the world.
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of…
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
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Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its…
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Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have…
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