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- "A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. "
- "A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common ..."
- "Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of ..."
- "Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and ..."
- "Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares ..."
- "I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose ..."
- "I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of ..."
- "In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical ..."
- "It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom ..."
- "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the ..."
- "Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is ..."
- "Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. "
- "Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are ..."
- "No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. "
- "Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to ..."
- "Originality is undetected plagiarism. "
- "Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever ..."
- "Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who ..."
- "The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. "
- "The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. "
- "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy ..."
