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Flattery is like...

Flattery is like...

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Source: In Correct...

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If a man...

If a man...

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...

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Life is an...

Life is an...

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Source:...

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To keep our...

To keep our...

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength...

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There are very...

There are very...

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise...

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Confession is always...

Confession is always...

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...

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Beauty is desired...

Beauty is desired...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of...

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Every man's work,...

Every man's work,...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait...

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Almost every sect...

Almost every sect...

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accomodate it to the prejudices of the...

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An indigestion is...

An indigestion is...

An indigestion is an excellent common-place for two people that never met before.

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Belief is with...

Belief is with...

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for --they swear to that which turns to...

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It is better...

It is better...

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

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It is well...

It is well...

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong...

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No truly great...

No truly great...

No truly great man ever thought himself so.

Source: Common Places, no. 20, in...

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Desmond Tutu: You don't choose...

Desmond Tutu: You don't choose...

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: [Americans] are the...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: [Americans] are the...

[Americans] are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Source: On Americans, NBC TV, 8...

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Karl Barth: Conscience is the...

Karl Barth: Conscience is the...

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Source: The Word of God and the Word...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: We must learn...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: We must learn...

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they...

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Reinhold Niebuhr: I think there...

Reinhold Niebuhr: I think there...

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Don't drag the...

Maria Weston Chapman: Don't drag the...

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an...

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