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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

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Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

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As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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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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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

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The moderns do not realize modernity.

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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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