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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

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The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

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The word good has many meanings.

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

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