William Hurrell Mallock Quotes

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• Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
• The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the…
• Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being…
• If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
• Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
• 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 social…

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