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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are,...more

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The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries. In my the m...more

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No people find each other more absurd than lovers

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Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. ...[G]reat scholars are now as litt...more