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Letter "H" » hobgoblin
«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Politics
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«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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