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| The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years. | | Uncategorized | |
| The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. | | Uncategorized | |
| The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. | | Uncategorized | |
| The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. | | Uncategorized | |
| The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. | | Uncategorized | |
| The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity | | Advertising | |
| The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. | | World | |
| The world's great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men. | | Uncategorized | |
| The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions | | Uncategorized | |
| There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples | | Smile | |
| There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors | | Uncategorized | |
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| Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. | | Life; Youth | |
| To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences | | Uncategorized | |
| To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. | | Uncategorized | |
| To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man | | Luck; Sports; Virtue | |
| To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. | | Doubt; Principles | |
| To live is to function. That is all there is in living. | | Uncategorized | |
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