Poems List
The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling; to the former, infinite.
The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
The essential function of marriage is the continuance of the race, as stated in the Book of Common Prayer.
The Family is a petty despotism.
The Family is a petty despotism; . . . a school in which men learn to despise women and women to mistrust men (much more than is necessary); a slaughterhouse for children (the firstborn succumbing to unskilled treatment, the lastborn to neglect). . . . Unfortunately, we cannot as yet do without it; and therefore we put a good face on the matter by conferring upon it the conventional attribute of sacredness, and impudently proclaiming it the source of all the virtues it has well-nigh killed in us.
The fatal reservation of the gentleman is that he sacrifices everything to his honor except his gentility.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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