Quotes of Herbert - somelinesforyou

“ RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external coexistences," as Satan "squat like a toad" at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel's spear… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said, "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure — try to please everybody. ”

- Unknown

“ A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the universal judgement that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims. That is not a universal judgment today. ”

- Don B. Kates

“ In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere ibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, ine nets and stratagems… ”

- C.S. Lewis
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