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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.