Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSThe uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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