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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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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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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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