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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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The confession of...

The confession of...

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. ...

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The love of...

The love of...

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest...

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The perfect joys...

The perfect joys...

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Source: In...

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We fail far...

We fail far...

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Source: In The World's Best...

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It is sad...

It is sad...

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any...

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Naturally, love's the...

Naturally, love's the...

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Source: La Somme Ath?ologique, vol....

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Men despise great...

Men despise great...

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

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People who shut...

People who shut...

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a...

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For those who...

For those who...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as...

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Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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In most modern...

In most modern...

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...

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When we do...

When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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A man only...

A man only...

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

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Which came first...

Which came first...

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Source: Interview, 12 April 1992,...

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That's free enterprise,...

That's free enterprise,...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing --the truly democratic thing...

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Wedding: the point...

Wedding: the point...

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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Woman! The peg...

Woman! The peg...

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his...

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I know not...

I know not...

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register...

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One horse-laugh is...

One horse-laugh is...

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more...

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