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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."
"Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah, and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not."
"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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