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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
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A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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Religion is caught, not taught.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
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