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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Thomas Mann

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Death Goodness Himself Love Thinking
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
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Art Life Pour Spirit
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Maintain Quite Time
Stupid – well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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Clever Kind Smart Stupidity Worst
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
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Crime Evil One Liner Tolerance
We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
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Fear Interest Ourselves Sight View
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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Conscious Life Himself Live Man Personal
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Beautiful Born Original Pervert Poetry
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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Average Honor Word

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