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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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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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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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