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"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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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."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
Humor
"Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son."
Family
"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
Manners
"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
Family
"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
Being
"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."
Trust
"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
Language
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
Crime
"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
Books
"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."
Education
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