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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

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It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

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

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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

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So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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