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People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.


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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.



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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.



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I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.



The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.



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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.



A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.



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Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.



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Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.



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