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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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Funny how the new things are the old things.

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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

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Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.

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And what should they know of England who only England know?

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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

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