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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and t...  
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, ...  
I put the words down and push them a bit.  
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive ...  
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.  
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which wi...  
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card i...  
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise...  
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is...  
Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ri...  
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constan...  
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.  
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and ...  
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them n...  
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty th...  
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.  
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it i...  
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the...  
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours...  
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, ...  
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be se...  
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.  
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.