Quotes 61 till 80 of 1785.
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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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