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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.



Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.



Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.



The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.



I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.



All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.



I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.



It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.



Hell is paved with good intention, not with bad ones. All men mean well.



Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.



Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.



Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance



Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.



The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.



The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.







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