"He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. [He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]"
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"Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault."
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"If things were to be done twice, all would be wise."
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"I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious."
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"It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it."
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"I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother."
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"To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none."
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"There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it."
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"History would be an excellent thing if only it were true."
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"If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents."
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"I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me."
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"Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess."
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"Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day."
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"Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked."
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"To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism."
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"If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable."
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"He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England."
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"That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance"
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"How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it."
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"How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos."
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