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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- Men
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
- Difficult
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- Considered
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- Nov 07, 2020
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
- Good Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
- Shout
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- Nov 07, 2020
A yawn is a silent shout.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- Cell
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
- Miracle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- Puns
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020