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“The traditional British view is that character is what matters in a general. They like a solid, simple man, with no newfangled nonsense about him. He should be preternaturally silent. If by chance he thinks at all he should not let this leak out, otherwise confidence would be destroyed.”
Today's Battles. Collier's, 7 October 1939.
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 487. ISBN 0903988429
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“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
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Source: Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972), p. 79.

Source: The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent (1915), p. 3

Robert Henri, open letter to the Art Students League, (1917-10-29).

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