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When I was young I

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
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You are not angry with

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
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I have an idea that

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
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There is hardly anyone whose

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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It was such a lovely

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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We are not the same

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.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
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The future will one day

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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It's a funny thing about

It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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It is not true that

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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