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“I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlikeinjecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course,...”
“Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.”
“Reforms should begin at home and stay there.”
“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't.”
“We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.”
“Reform must come from within not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.”
“The hole and the patch should be commensurate.”
“To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.”
“An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.”