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It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

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There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

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They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

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