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Quotes from To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs — Leonard H. Courtney

1832–1918 England

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It is not everyone whose ductile mind takes him through this training, and a goodly number of up-growing men of not the worst promise for the future have to step aside.

To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)

It may be also confessed that life often survives all the perversities of training. We cannot absolutely nullify the prodigality of nature, try as hard as we may.

To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)

More penetrating and pernicious is the influence our ill-devised machinery has upon the character of our national life. It eats in and into it. It degrades candidates and electors alike.

To My Fellow-Disciples at Saratoga Springs (1895)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leonard H. Courtney (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.