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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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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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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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 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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Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
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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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I think I ought to have some eddication,said the Wart, I can't think of anything to do.
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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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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had been a child that had been beaten.
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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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The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
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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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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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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 is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
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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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