" The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. "
Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956). copy citation
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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
"I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past." G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
"Civilisation had been restored to the Island. But now the political fabric which nurtured it was about to be overthrown. Hitherto strong men armed had kept the house. Now a child, a weakling, a vacillator, a faithless, feckless creature,..." Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956).