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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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