“ it is too successful as an investment to be believed in as a virtue. ”
G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905). copy citation
Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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Source | Heretics |
Topic | investment virtue |
Date | 1905 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/470/470-h/470-h.htm |
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“Humility will always, by preference, go clad in scarlet and gold; pride is that which refuses to let gold and scarlet impress it or please it too much. In a word, the failure of this virtue actually lies in its success; it is too successful as an investment to be believed in as a virtue. Humility is not merely too good for this world; it is too practical for this world; I had almost said it is too worldly for this world.
The instance most quoted in our day is the thing called the humility of the man of science;”
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