The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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