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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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