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Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
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From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
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Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
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Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.
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God can only do for you what He can do through you.
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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