“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.