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Which Quotes by James Stephens
- To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
- A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each…
- If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil…
- There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate…
- In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so,…
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