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• For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails…
• He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
• If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
• She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run…
• To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in…
• The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the…
• First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
• A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash…
• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
• If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
• The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to…
• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of…

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