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There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

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Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

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There nearly always is a method in madness.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

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But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

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