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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

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Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

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Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

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