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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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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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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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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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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
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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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He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
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I think I ought to have some eddication,said the Wart, I can't think of anything to do.
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