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Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

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I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

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