"Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with."
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"The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents."
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"After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished."
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"The end of living is the true enjoyment of it."
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"All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard."
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"And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted"
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"There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy."
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"All human happiness is sensuous happiness."
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"Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother."
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"Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others."
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"Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive."
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"A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind."
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"The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf."
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"By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also."
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"He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer."
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"China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world."
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"The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more."
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"Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us."
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