Quotes 761 till 780 of 1785.
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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' - but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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It is as idle to range against man's fatuity as to hope that he will ever be less a fool.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33 -
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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