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Badness is only spoiled goodness.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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This year, or this month,

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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The trouble about trying to

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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I live in the Managerial

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
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Five senses; an incurably abstract

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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No man knows how bad

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
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Friendship is born at that

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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We are not necessarily doubting

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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Do not let us mistake

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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