"Since in the long run deception is likely……" — F L Lucas
"Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it."
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F L Lucas
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16 Quotes by F L Lucas
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Most style is not honest enough.
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Might was the measure of right.
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It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages…
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The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure…
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to…
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire…
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Great fear is concealed under daring.
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I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary…
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may…
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not…
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