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" All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. "
Instinct
Healthy
Conflict
" An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. "
Work
God
Last
" Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. "
Subject
Made
Boring
" Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. "
Make
Who
Remember
" Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. "
Pictures
Pleasure
Book
" Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. "
Nationalism
History
Language
" From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. "
Out
Winning
Love
" I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. "
Book
Writing
Write
" I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. "
My Life
Life
Travel
" I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. "
Love
Money
Pleasure
" Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. "
Soul
My Soul
Known
" It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. "
Sometimes
Nation
Lie
" It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. "
Make
Them
Best
" Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. "
Admirable
Autobiography
Nothing
" Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. "
Shadow
Loss
Death
" Money gives me pleasure all the time. "
Money
Time
Gives
" Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. "
Writing
Empty
Worst
" Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. "
Me
Lunch
Tea
" Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. "
Triumph
Victory
Statistics
" The grace of God is courtesy. "
Grace
God
Courtesy
" The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. "
Small
Him
Take
" The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. "
Begins
He
Lie
" The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities. "
Humble
Smile
Clouds
" There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. "
Mind
Flood
Ignorance
" When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. "
Air
Space
Friendship
" When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. "
May
Books
Said
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