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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

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There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

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All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

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All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

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The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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The true object of human life is play.

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Plato was right, but not quite right.

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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