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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 3

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1958-06-09), Commencement, Michigan State University, East Lansing

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Speech (1958-06-09), Commencement, Michigan State University, East Lansing - Stevenson, Adlai | WIST Quotations

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 28, 2025

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil. Or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior. Or by cynical acceptance of dishonor. These evils have defeated nations many times in human history.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

More info about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/78658…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 5, 2025

A quotation from Emerson

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Circles,” Essays: First Series, No. 10

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 3, 2025

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Weak men are the light troops in the army of the wicked. They do more harm than the main force; they overrun and and ravage the country.

[Les gens faibles sont les troupes légères de l’armée des méchans. Ils font plus de mal que l’armée même; ils infestent et ils ravagent.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 133 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/753…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jan 30, 2025

A quotation from Moliere

ALCESTE: The more one loves, the more one should object
To every blemish, every least defect.
Were I this lady, I would soon get rid
Of lovers who approved of all I did,
And by their slack indulgence and applause
Endorsed my follies and excused my flaws.

[Plus on aime quelqu’un, moins il faut qu’on le flatte ;
À ne rien pardonner le pur amour éclate ;
Et je bannirais, moi, tous ces lâches amants
Que je verrais soumis à tous mes sentiments,
Et dont, à tous propos, les molles complaisances
Donneraient de l’encens à mes extravagances.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]

Le Misanthrope, Act 2, sc. 5 (1666) [tr. Wilbur (1954)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/74395/

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Le Misanthrope, Act 2, sc. 5 (1666) [tr. Wilbur (1954)] - Moliere | WIST Quotations

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jan 23, 2025

A quotation from Chesterton, Gilbert Keith:

«
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/74179/

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Essay (1922-04-29), "On Holland," Illustrated London News - Chesterton, Gilbert Keith | WIST Quotations

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Collected in Generally Speaking, ch. 20 (1928)

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WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 6, 2024

A quotation from Moliere:

«
ALCESTE: Some men I hate for being rogues; the others
I hate because they treat the rogues like brothers,
And, lacking a virtuous scorn for what is vile,
Receive the villain with a complaisant smile.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/moliere/73249/

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jun 28, 2024

A quotation from Stevenson, Adlai:

«
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewing/9382/

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Speech (1958-06-09), Commencement, Michigan State University, East Lansing - Stevenson, Adlai | WIST Quotations

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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