There has never been any ...

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
 Havelock Ellis

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
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