"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."
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"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
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"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages."
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"Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child."
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"Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend."
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"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."
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"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
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"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
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"I don't think a tough question is disrespectful."
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"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
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"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."
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"Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise."
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"Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures."
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"Perversity is the muse of modern literature."
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"The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat."
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"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."
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"Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?"
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"I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism."
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"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
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