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- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
- When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
- I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad…
- The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
- The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which…
- He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
- I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
- It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is…
- The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent…
- Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
- And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its…
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
- Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and…
- The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we…
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.…
- I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that…
- He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four…
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it…
- I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful…
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