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| 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' |
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| A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. |
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| A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. |
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| A dying monarchy is always one that has too much power, not too little; a dying religion always interferes more than it ought, not less. |
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| A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. |
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| A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.' |
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| A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. |
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| A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. |
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| A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. |
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| A man's opinion on tramcars matters; his opinion on Botticelli matters; his opinion on all things does not matter. |
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| A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. |
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| A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. |
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| A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. |
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| All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. |
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| All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot. |
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