The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made..
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