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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

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Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

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Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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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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