T. H. White Quotes
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
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They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
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I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
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The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
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It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
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The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
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It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
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Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
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People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.