"The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player."
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"Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million."
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"Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet."
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"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman."
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"Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so."
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"Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes."
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"Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things."
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"No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else."
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"People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them."
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"When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column."
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"Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate."
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"A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity."
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"Golf is typical capitalist luncay."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism."
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"Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity."
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"I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?"
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"The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical."
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"Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust."
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"If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side."
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