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Sir Walter Besant
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"A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
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Sir Walter Besant
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Top 5 quotes from Sir Walter Besant
"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
"The man who listens to Reason is lost; reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."
"He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
"If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example."
"You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"Faith is a continuation of reason."
"When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so."
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- or what's a heaven for?"
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us."
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