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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
Explore more quotes by Lytton Strachey
"In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal."
"English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind."
"When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower."
"With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin."
"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art."
"In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought."
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