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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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An index is a great leveller.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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