In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. — Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

John Taliaferro
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  1. Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. - Warren W. Wiersbe

  2. Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly. - Debasish Mridha

  3. In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You - Vineet Raj Kapoor

  4. I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful. - Tanith Lee

  5. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time. - Harold Holzer

More Quotes By John Taliaferro
  1. John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

  2. John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

  3. Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

  4. Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

  5. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

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