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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.

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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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