T. H. White Quotes
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You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
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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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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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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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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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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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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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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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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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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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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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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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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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He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.
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The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
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I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.
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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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People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
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Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.