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I Believe That Every Man Has In His Soul A Passion For Treasure-hunting, Which Will Often Drive A Coward Into Prodigies Of Valour.

Any Large-scale Organization Must Lose Some Of The Merits Of Its Rudimentary Beginnings. Quantity Will Have A Coarsening Effect On Quality.

I Believe That All Wisdom Consists In Caring Immensely For A Few Right Things, And Not Caring A Straw About The Rest.

I Would Have Been Content With Any Job However Thankless, In Any Quarter However Remote, If I Had A Chance Of Making A Corner Of The Desert Blossom And The Solitary Place Glad.

The World Was Arrogant And Self-satisfied, But Behind All This Confidence There Was An Uneasy Sense Of Impending Disaster. The Old Creeds, Both Religious And Political, Were Largely In The Process Of Dissolution, But We Did Not Realise The Fact, And Therefore Did Not Look For New Foundations.