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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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