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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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