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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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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

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As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

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Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

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

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