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The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round read more
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably read more
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably wrong.
We can only change the world by changing men.
We can only change the world by changing men.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
O world as God has made it! All is beauty.
O world as God has made it! All is beauty.
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
