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Denham felt the relief that follows unaccepted hospitality.

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It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

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The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

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Televiewers in this country are not on the whole an intellectual type.

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But I mustn't bother you with this. One should consume one's own smoke.

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One could do with a longer year — so much to do, so little done, alas.

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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

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Human passions against eternal laws — that is the everlasting conflict.

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God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

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Is rabbit fur disgusting because it's cheap, or is it cheap because it's disgusting?

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Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

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The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

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Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

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You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.

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She probably labored under the common delusion that you made things better by talking about them.

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To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being.... The open mind is the empty mind.

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One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

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News is like food; it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

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He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays — cynical, but hopeful.

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The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

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"Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

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To lunch with the important... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

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His book... makes nice reading for people. But what's the use? Except, of course, to kill time for those who prefer it dead.

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The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

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Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

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The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost — to lie to oneself. Lying to other people — that's a small thing in comparison.

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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangenesses.

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Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

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I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

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The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

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