Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.

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Nothing is wonderful except the abnormal and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it?

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Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

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