“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) English writer
More Women than Men (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1933] 1951) p. 54.
“The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress — these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.”
"America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub", p. 8. First published in Commentary (September 1947)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
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