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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

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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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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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My hope is Donald Trump makes things better. And if he does, we'll all benefit from it.

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I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

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Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

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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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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

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