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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

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Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

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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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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

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