Honore de Balzac Quotes
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
Balzac, Honoré de. The Government Clerks. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Roberts Brothers, 1898, p. 75.
The general was a delegate to the 28th Communist Party Congress in 1990.
Taft was not unintelligent. He was actually quite bright which is one of the reasons that TR selected him as VP and supported Taft for President in 1908. Taft did have an aversion to confrontation and political battle, and he was unable deal with the conservatives of his Party to maintain some independence and continue the TR progressive reforms. Roosevelt, who had been a very close friend of Taft, was disillusioned with the Taft Presidency and ran against him in the 1912 Republican Primary.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.