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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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