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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
T. H. White
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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 a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
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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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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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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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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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In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
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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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[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
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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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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
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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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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
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