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/ page 192 of 1205 /All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord James is dead" to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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