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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with S >> Quotes By Sir Walter Besant |
| Quote #1: | "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world." |
| Quote #2: | "The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her." |
| Quote #3: | "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." |
| Quote #4: | "You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world." |
| Quote #5: | "He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career." |
| Quote #6: | "I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy." |
| Quote #7: | "Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children." |
| Quote #8: | "If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." |
| Quote #9: | "A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage." |
| Quote #10: | "Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children." |
| Quote #11: | "Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth." |
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