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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends -
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
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Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
Leviathan (1651) -
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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