I know this–a man got to do what he got to do.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
My music is best understood by children and animals.
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.