“ Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. ”
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“ For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man. ”
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“ From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ”
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“ No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time, it sounds like neighing — yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up. ”
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“ It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated. ”
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“ It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated. ”
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“ All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. ”
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“ When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". ”
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“ Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so it is with autobiography. ”
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“ I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. ”
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“ The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. ”
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“ Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls. ”
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“ I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ”
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“ All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. ”
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“ I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. ”
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“ Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. ”
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“ Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. ”
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“ From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ”
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“ All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea. ”
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“ I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ”
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“ Of Courtesy — it is much less Than courage, heart or holiness; Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in Courtesy. ”
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“ I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. ”
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“ All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea. ”
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