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" One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. "

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

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

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

" The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. "

" One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. "

" Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. "

" 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. "

" Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. "

" 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. "

" Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. "

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

" Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. "

" There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. "

" Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. "

" Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. "

" I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. "

" The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. "

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

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

" There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. "

" The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. "

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

" Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. "

" People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. "