“My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?”
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917) English actor and theatre manager
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"To a man who was staggering in the street under the weight of a grandfather clock".
Beerbohm Tree (1956)
“My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea.”
Tommy Douglas 1961. http://web.archive.org/web/20041020022338/http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy.html <br class="br">Mes amis, surveillez bien les petites gens qui ont des idées http://web.archive.org/web/20041029193928/http://www.cbc.ca/grandscanadiens/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy.html.
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Never allow yourselves to forget that it is for their own sakes and not for yours that all those wise lawgivers have forced you into your present unnatural and rigid molds. And as evidence of this, I need only produce all our political, civil, and religious institutions. Examine them thoroughly, and either I am very much mistaken or you will find that mankind has been forced to bow, century after century, beneath a mere handful of scoundrels has conspired, in ever age, to impose upon it. Beware of the man who wants to set things in order. Setting things in order always involves acquiring mastery over others — by tying them hand and foot.
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