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- If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
- You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can…
- I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for…
- The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are…
- A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and…
- When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which…
- In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty…
- Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
- The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
- Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
- What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
- Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
- Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.
- The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
- We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill…
- Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it:…
- Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the…
- In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
- The Jews generally give value.They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who wantsomething for nothing are invariably Christians.
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