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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Writing is the supreme solace.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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