“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.