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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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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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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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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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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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Better never than late.

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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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