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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Topic: Books and Reading
Source: None
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Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.
Topic: Business
Source: None
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips,
Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;
The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,
As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
Topic: Gods
Source: Literary Studies (II, 410, Ignorance of Man)
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Speak of the gods as they are.
Topic: Gods
Source: Literary Studies (II, 410, Ignorance of Man)
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Topic: Magic
Source: None
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Topic: Myth
Source: None
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Topic: Obedience
Source: None
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The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Topic: Quiet
Source: None
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Topic: Quiet
Source: None
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: None
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