Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.Evelyn Waugh
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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