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Only fools want to be great.
Aviators live by hours, not by days.
Kings can only use their best tools.
a king can only work with his best tools.
Might does not make right! Right makes right!
The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.
It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.
But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
God is love, the parson whined. Yes, and is he also blind?
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.
People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
You think education is something to be done when all else fails?
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.
All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.
Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.