“ Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. ”
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“ An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ”
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“ The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ”
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“ The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue. ”
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“ Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it — or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ”
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“ Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. ”
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“ An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ”
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“ There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ”
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“ Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing. ”
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“ The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ”
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“ To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ”
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“ Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. ”
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“ The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. ”
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“ Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ”
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“ The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. ”
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“ The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament. ”
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“ You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ”
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“ Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. ”
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“ Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ”
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“ Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord James is dead" to people who never knew Lord James was alive. ”
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“ Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. ”
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“ All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. ”
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“ A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or not it is permanent, it claims permanence, like dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky. ”
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“ A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. ”
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“ Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. ”
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“ The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ”
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“ The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ”
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