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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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"However British you may be, I am more British still."
Nationalism
"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme."
Love
"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
Silence
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
Being
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
Mind
"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
History
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
Man
"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
Death
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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