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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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New roads; new ruts.

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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29th, 1874

Died: June 14th, 1936

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