Hicks Richardson

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“Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.”
—G. Dawes Hicks (1862–1941)

“Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)