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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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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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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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

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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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