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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 who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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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.

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The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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