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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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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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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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