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“We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.”

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What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

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Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

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If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well…

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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out,…

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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

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Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

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No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

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If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

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read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the…

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In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age…

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It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

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