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How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

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[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

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Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

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