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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
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A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
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A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
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