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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
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The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man
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