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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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