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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

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We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

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