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I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Terence Hanbury White
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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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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My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
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They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
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In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
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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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The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
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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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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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Kings can only use their best tools.
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Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
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If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there
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