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George Edward Herbert

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

Heat, madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Judge Crater - please call your office.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.

Bland as a Jesuit, sober as a hymn.

I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

He'd give the devil ulcers.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Amoebas at the start were not complex -They tore themselves apart and started sex.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."