Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.E. M. Forster
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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No one is India.
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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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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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