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" The proper study of mankind is books. "

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" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "

" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "

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

" Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. "

" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

" Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. "

" That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. "

" Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. "

" The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. "

" Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. "

" 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. "

" Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. "

" There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. "

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" To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. "

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" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "

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" Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. "

" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

" Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. "

" 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. "

" Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. "

" Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. "

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