Word: fooled
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Taught Honor was a knave and Truth a fool...
...better to have one brave fool than a hundred cowards that chant wisdom by rote; and a steadfast man is not to be compared with a throng of popular clamorers. Only from struggle may there arise strength, and only from opposition the truth...
Death is not terrible to him who meets it bravely, wisely and in the strength of his youth. It is always terrible to the coward, the weakling and the fool. Yet, by the very inverse reason, for those who remain the death of a brave man is tragic beyond the poor power of words...
...natural to expect that "there is always some fool who will be careless." The thing for each man to do, then, is to see that he is not the fool...
...have won in the Advocate. The stories, too, are well written, though slight and immature artistically, as compared with the verse, and depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool," by Mr. Putnam, there is little attempt at characterization, and even here it is rather rudimentary. The one article "Concerning the Young Russians" is interesting and well-informed, though more might, with justice, be said for Artsybashey and the philosophical significance and artistic quality of his novels, "Sanine...