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The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

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A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

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There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

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The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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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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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

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Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

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Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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Surprise is the secret of joy.

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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

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A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

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