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" Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all. "
Real
Than
Action
" Don't hustle old people. "
Hustle
People
Old People
" For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. "
Moment
Great
Me
" I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. "
Over
Wave
Am
" I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman. "
Say
I Am
Ashamed
" I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. "
Future
Light
Past
" I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? "
I Believe
Believe
Events
" I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. "
Writing
Pencils
Use
" I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal. "
Socialism
Own
Goal
" Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. "
Problem
Effort
Impossible
" I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. "
Me
Mind
Person
" In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. "
Work
Courage
Men
" I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. "
Hour
Course
Socialism
" I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. "
Sympathy
Want
Desire
" Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress. "
Wear
Progress
Slow
" My duty is clear and at all costs will be done. "
Costs
Will
Duty
" The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe. "
England
Serve
Greatest
" The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State. "
Lying
Office
War
" The Thames is liquid history. "
Thames
History
Liquid
" Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand. "
Great
Over
Why
" You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. "
Hands
Manners
Me
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