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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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