Dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup$$$ the beef as rare as the service$$$ the brandy as old as the fish$$$ and the maid as willing as the Duchess.
The maxim$$$ "Nothing prevails but perfection$$$" may be spelled PARALYSIS.
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife's bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
Without tradition$$$ art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation$$$ it is a corpse.
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory$$$ because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
But no artist$$$ I now realize$$$ can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests$$$ Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.