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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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