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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
I can resist anything but temptation.
About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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