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A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
People do not read, by and large. They watch television.
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me
Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
بالدم نكتب لفلسطين We write with the blood for Palestine
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.
CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.
She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.