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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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