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• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
• Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
• A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is…
• Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing…
• The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is…
• In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have…
• The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
• Originality is undetected plagiarism.
• Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
• Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a…
• Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot…

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