We thought, because

We thought, because
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
  

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Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.
Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.
Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
What is well done is done soon enough.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.
At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.