Able Quote by Brooks Atkinson

“The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.”

Brooks Atkinson

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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

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The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

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