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From quiet homes and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends There's nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter and the love of friends.
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For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.
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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.
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The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.
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Money gives me pleasure all the time.
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
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Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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The grace of God is courtesy.
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
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… that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
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What is needed is a form of tax which not only spares the small man at the expense of his wealthier rival, but actually subsidizes the small man where subsidy is necessary.
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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
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The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge)
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When they married and gave in marriage They danced at the County Ball And some of them kept a carriage And the flood destroyed them all.
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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.
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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine.
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The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment.
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Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.
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For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.
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These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
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If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
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