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ActionI do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Art and ArtistsArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
BoysA man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
ChastityChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
ClevernessThe doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
CompromiseCompromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
Country"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".
CourageCourage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
DemocracyYou can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
EducationEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
EducationEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
FameThe present condition of fame is merely fashion.
FightYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
HygieneMan does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
LoveThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
QuarrelPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
QuotationYou could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
ReligionIt is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
RetirementThe worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
RitualRitual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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