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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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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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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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