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/ page 193 of 1205 /The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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New roads; new ruts.
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
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A yawn is a silent shout.
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Inför en dumhet, som precis är på modet, klarar sig ingen klokhet.
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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Vistor Hugo.
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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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