Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
—Herbert Agar
Topics: Class
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.
—Herbert Agar
Topics: Belief
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
—Herbert Agar
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
—Herbert Agar
Topics: Promises
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