Quotes by Henry S. Haskins

Henry S. Haskins

American stockbroker and man of letters

Alive from: 1875-1957

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  Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135

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  Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 94

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  Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

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  If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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  It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 22

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  Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 92

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  Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 82

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  Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135

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  People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

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  Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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  Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p.96

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  The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 107

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  The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.

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  Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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  We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.
  Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 134