IN PASSING
My mother sat in Sir Walter Scott's lap in 1825. —Mr. Raymond Blathwayt. We have a great asset in the shape of a sane spirit of optimism.—Prince of Wales. l)o not speak as if the future'were beyond the control of men of goodwill. —Sir John Simon. Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self. —John Galsworthy. At least a quarter of America is at work on jobs the very names of which were not known 30 years ago.—Mrs. Barbara Wootton. The time to think is before, *not after; yet no simple and obvious axiom of truth is more consistently ignored by the human family.—Eden Phillpott.
Pessimism insists on the shortness of human life in order to show that life is valueless. Religion insists on the shortness of human life in order to show that life is frightfully valuable.— G. K. Chesterton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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