Top 5 Oscar W. Firkins Quotes

#1. The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

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#2. All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

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#3. If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

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#4. The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

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#5. Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

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