"I'd rather be right than consistent."
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"I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it."
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"The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country."
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"It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it."
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"But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?"
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"It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it."
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"The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs."
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"There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it."
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"Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see."
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"When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public."
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"Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
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"Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers."
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"We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean."
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"The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes."
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"The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law."
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"He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his."
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"Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward."
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"A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon."
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"Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely."
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"Without ships, we cannot live."
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