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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
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My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
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