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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

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

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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