“ In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ”
- A. E. Housman- Copy
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“ It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
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“ That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to anyone. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean… ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued… ”
- William Booth- Copy
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