Quote#World
No, there is no world-wide standard for the determination of…
Quote byThomas R. Marshall · 1854–1925
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Chapter VI.
English (original)
No, there is no world-wide standard for the determination of provincialism. There is only one standard by which to judge men and women, and that standard is not so much one of brains and education as it is of culture and heart. Kindness seems to be the one golden metewand by which to measure how really civilized and catholic one may be.
— Thomas R. Marshall
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