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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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Let every man be true and every god a liar.

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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

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The want of money is the root of all evil.

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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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