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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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