Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSThe past is but the past of a beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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