“The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.”
― Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
― Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
“We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.”
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“Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.”
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“Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;”
― The Little White Horse
― The Little White Horse
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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