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People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
— Norman Douglas
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
— Norman Douglas
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
— Norman Douglas
No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
— Norman Douglas
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
— Norman Douglas
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
— Norman Douglas
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
— Norman Douglas
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
— Norman Douglas
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
— Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
— Norman Douglas
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
— Norman Douglas
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
— Norman Douglas
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
— Norman Douglas
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
— Norman Douglas
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
— Norman Douglas
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
— Norman Douglas
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
— Norman Douglas
Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.
— Norman Douglas
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
— Norman Douglas
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
— Norman Douglas
The secret of happiness is curiosity
— Norman Douglas
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
— Norman Douglas
To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
— Norman Douglas
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
— Norman Douglas
The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.
— Norman Douglas
The pine stays green in winter ... wisdom in hardship.
— Norman Douglas