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• Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
• The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
• Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
• The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power…
• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should…
• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
• If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with…
• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book…
• A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
• The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
• Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was…
• We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
• Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
• If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
• Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
• The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
• A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
• Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If…
• A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of…
• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is…
• It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a…
• Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it…
• The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere…

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