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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Tidaklah lucu bahwa yang lainnya harus jatuh; hanya itu seorang pria yang harus jatuh. Mengapa kita tertawa? Karena ini adalah masalah agama yang serius: ini adalah Kejatuhan Manusia. Hanya manusia yang bisa absurd: karena hanya manusia yang bisa bermartabat.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.