Quotations

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

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“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

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“When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.”

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“Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. ”

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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

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“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”

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“It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.”

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“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.”

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“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”

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“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”

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“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”

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“Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.”

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“Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.”

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“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”

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“Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas…for it is the assertion of a universal negative.”

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“The only object of liberty is life.”

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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

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“Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.”

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