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"Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."

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"Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

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"As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider."

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"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible."

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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

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"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

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"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large."

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"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."

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