"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."

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"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."

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"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

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"It is not a fragrant world."

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"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."

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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."

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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."

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"The more you reason the less you create."

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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."

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"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."

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