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| To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly. | | Praise | |
| Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English | | Uncategorized | |
| Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. | | Uncategorized | |
| Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery. | | Wealth | |
| Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. | | Uncategorized | |
| Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices. | | Uncategorized | |
| Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it | | Uncategorized | |
| Virtue is insufficient temptation. | | Virtue | |
| Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. | | Uncategorized | |
| Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. | | Uncategorized | |
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| We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins | | Uncategorized | |
| We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. | | Uncategorized | |
| We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners | | Uncategorized | |
| We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. | | Age | |
| We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to. | | Uncategorized | |
| We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. | | Uncategorized | |
