IN PASSING.
I am told I am old-fashioned because I hate the sight of motor-cars.—Six-Harold Morris, K.C.
English is the richest language in the world, and in many respects the most flexible.—Lord Balfour.
If you have any faith you have to fight for it; it isn't a thing you can have cheaply.—Rev. c. A. Studdert-Kennedy.
There is no need really to look at life through rose-coloured spectacles in order to find it worth living.—Sheila Kaye Smith.
There are some preparatory schools in which the high fees are matched by the incompetence of the teachers. —The Bishop of Kingston. No one who has been to Geneva can fail to realise how perpetually the rest of the world is looking to Great Britain. —Viscount Cecil.
There are only four artists in the world who can fill the Albert Hall, viz., Chaliapin, Kreisler, McCorrnack, and Clara Butt —Miss Daisy Kennedy. There is no indication of any new process, either in iron or steel manufacture, which is likely to revolutionise our present methods of production.—Mr. F. W. Harhord.
I hope we shall soon see the day when no boy or girl, whether of a great city, or a town, or even a village, shall be able to say. " I have nowhere to play." The Prince of Wales.
The Anglican clergy have fallen into an inferior position in 4he matter of scholarship, and the time is drawing near when it will be plainly unsuitable to apply the the word "learned" to the clergy as a profession.—Bishop of Durham. If the argument is to prevail that the prerogative right of creating Peers of Parliament must be kept sacrosanct, no reform of the House of uords now or hereafter is conceivably possible which limits the numbers of that body; and no reform is worth having which docs not.— Earl of Birkenhead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 7 (Supplement)
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304IN PASSING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 7 (Supplement)
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