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" A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. "

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" If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. "

" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "

" There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. "

" A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. "

" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

" The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. "

" Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. "

" Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. "

" What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. "

" The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. "

" My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. "

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" Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. "

" Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

" You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. "

" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "

" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "

" The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. "

" The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. "

" It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. "

" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "

" The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

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" God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. "

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