Norman Douglas Quotes
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There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
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How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.
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The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
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No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
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I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
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People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
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A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.
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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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The secret of happiness is curiosity
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
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Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
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I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
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The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
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It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
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There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
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