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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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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 gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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