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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

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There is no bigot like the atheist.

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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

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A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

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No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

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