"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths."

Life, Help, Man, Myths

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"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths."

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."

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