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The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
T. H. White
Tim White
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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You run a grave risk, my boy, said the magician, of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
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You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal you had a duty towards it.
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Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.
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Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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A lot of brainless unicorns swaggering about and calling themselves educated just because they can push each other off a horse with a bit of a stick! It makes me tired.
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Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.
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The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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