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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

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The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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Progress is the mother of problems.

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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

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It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

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People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

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