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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

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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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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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