 | George Savile Marquis of Halifax - 1750 - 230 páginas
...World, and to like it, are two things not eafily to be reconciled. That which is called an Able M.dn is a great Over-valuer of the World, and all that belongeth to it. All that can be (aid of him is, that he maketh the beft of the General Miftake. It is the Fools and the Knaves that... | |
 | George Savile Marquis of Halifax - 1750 - 308 páginas
...are two things not eafily to be reconciled. That which is called an Able Man is a great Over- valuer of the World, and all that belongeth to it. All that can be faid of him is, that he maketh the beft of the General Miftake. It is the Fools and the Knaves that... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 334 páginas
...efficient, successful man, but scarcely true of the great practical genius, such as a Caesar or a Napoleon.] All that can be said of him is, that he maketh the best of the general mistake. __ It is the fools and the knaves that make the wheels of the world turn. They are the world; those... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 páginas
...the world, and to like it, are two things not easily to be reconciled. That which is called an able man is a great overvaluer of the world, and all that belongeth to it. [True, no doubt, of the ordinary efficient, successful man, but scarcely true of the great practical... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 322 páginas
...the world, and to like it, are two things not easily to be reconciled. That which is called an able man is a great overvaluer of the world, and all that belongeth to it. [True, no doubt, of the ordinary efficient, successful man, but scarcely true of the great practical... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 páginas
...the world, and to like it, are two things not easily to be reconciled. j'That which is called an able man is a great overvaluer of the world, and all that belongeth to it. [True, no doubt, of the ordinary efficient, successful man, but scarcely true of the great practical... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 páginas
..."State-business," he tells us, "is a cruel Trade; Good nature is a Bungler in it." "It is the Fools and Knaves that make the Wheels of the World turn. They...sneak up and down single, but never go in Herds." "The Government of the World is a great thing," we are assured by one who played a notable part in... | |
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It is the fools and the knaves that make the wheels of the world turn. They are the world ; those few who have sense or honesty sneak up and down single, but never go in herds. 