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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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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.
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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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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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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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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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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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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
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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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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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The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
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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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I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
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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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