Quote by Max Beerbohm
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. – Max Beerbohm

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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. – Max Beerbohm

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. – Robert Peel

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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. – John Stuart Mill

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain

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