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• The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
  -- Sidney Harri...
• You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist, he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.
  -- Sydney Harri...
• A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself
  he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. -- Alec Waugh...
• Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.
  -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise...
• There is no limit to the height a man may attain if he simply stays on the level.
• No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement.
  He will always find himself out of step. -- Sidney Hook...
• He did not mean to be cruel. If anybody had called him so, he would have resented it extremely.
  He would have said that what he did was done entirely for the good of the country....