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The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

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I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

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There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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