“Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 126)
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“But little do or can the best of us:
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Why I am a Liberal.
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J.B. Priestley book English Journey
English Journey, 1934. Reprinted in Judy Giles and Tim Middleton Writing Englishness: An Introductory Sourcebook,Routledge, 2003 (p. 26).
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
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Source: A Woman of No Importance