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" Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. "

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" We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. "

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" At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes. "

" Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. "

" Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. "

" I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. "

" Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. "

" One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. "

" Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. "

" America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. "

" Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. "

" For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. "

" The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. "

" Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. "

" We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. "

" We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. "

" I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. "

" I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. "

" The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. "

" Nonsense and beauty have close connections. "

" So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. "

" The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. "

" The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. "

" One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. "

" What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? "

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" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "

" The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. "

" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "