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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.

this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

Then Wade cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled as loud as he could: "ECHO!" Indeed, there was an impressive echo. Followed by the mighty roar of a troll.

the Home Secretary, Lord Palmerston, that wriggling mongoose of British politics.

those old women at Westminster

It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!

And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!

God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

Everything in the universe is good to the degree it conforms to the nature of God and evil as it fails to do so. —A.W. Tozer

The more extensive our comprehension of God's greatness (though in itself it is incomprehensible), the greater our capacity for fear or reverence of Him.

The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me.

Is it really that easy for the innocent to be corrupted?

line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.

A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.

if you ever tell anyone about this conversation, not only will I deny everything but I'll sue you for libel." "A libel is written down," I told him. "If I tell someone, then it would be a slander. Although it wouldn't be anyway since it would be the truth." "Fuck you," he said.

Why in God's name would you call a priest in your school a penis? How could he possibly be a penis? A man can't be a penis; he can only be a man. This makes no sense to me at all.

I understand that some people prefer the third person plural for a pronoun,' he replied, having recently interviewed a pop singer on his show who'd insisted upon this, leading one of the cameramen to be fired for calling them Sibyl, after the Sally Field movie about the woman with multiple personalities.

but each has the same function: to keep the family system in balance, frozen and protected from the possibility of change.

And how many problems have been solved to date?" "We haven't exterminated ourselves." "You claim credit for that? I knew you had gall, but this is fantastic!

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

Everybody is willing to praise the goodness of men publicly, but who is there who is as impressed with the goodness of God as he should be?

he who doesn't come in by the door, but climbs up some other way, that person is a thief and a robber'?