Quotes with inconsistencies

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• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

  Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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• No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• inconsistencies
• constitution
• consistent
• without
• efforts
• british

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