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" Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. "

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" I'm a holy man minus the holiness. "

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

" We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. "

" The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. "

" But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. "

" At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. "

" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. "

" The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. "

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

" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "

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

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Life

" I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. "

" If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. "

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

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

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

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" It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. "

" Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. "

" I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. "

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" Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. "