THOUGHTS OF THINKERS
The more the State intervenes the mors important it becomes, that the Stats should intervene on scientific lines.—Dr C. S. Loch.
German thoroughness is, no doubt, am awe-inspiring quality; but when applied to tho manufacturing of fiction it has its drawbacks, and the typical German is apt to be so terribly in earnest about it as at times to forget that he is sup. posed to be telling a story.—Miss Dorothea Gerard. The importance of a class is known by the way it is missed when it is nob there.—Mr Keir Handle. A war postponed is often a war prevented. —Captain Battine. Lives aro dated with many people by outward facts; mine is almost entirely dated by emotions, and most of all by artistic emotions. —Mr T. P. O’Connor. Mankind is in the making, and foe centuries that “making” has been re. tarded through the insensate folly of man, blinded by his arrogant self-wor-ship.—Mrs Prances Swiney.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8186, 30 July 1912, Page 6
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