"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

George Eliot, British Author

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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts."

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"The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda."

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"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all."

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"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground."

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"Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God."

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"Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other."

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"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

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"The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts."

"The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda."

"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all."

"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground."

"Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other."

"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream."

"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel."

"The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins."

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."