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It is almost universally felt ...

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

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I doubt whether classical educ...

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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He was an embittered atheist, ...

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

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Myths which are believed in te...

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

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The idea really came to me the...

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

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Dickens is one of those author...

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

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To an ordinary human being, lo...

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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War is war. The only good huma...

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

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When it comes to the pinch, hu...

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

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Progress is not an illusion, i...

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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The essential act of war is de...

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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Language ought to be the joint...

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

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Not to expose your true feelin...

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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What can you do against the lu...

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

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It is also true that one can w...

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

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Men are only as good as their ...

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

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One can love a child, perhaps,...

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

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War is evil, but it is often t...

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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I sometimes think that the pri...

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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Joyce is a poet and also an el...

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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