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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

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The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

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Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

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Surprise is the secret of joy.

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In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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