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“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.”

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“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”

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“Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.”

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“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”

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“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

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“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.”

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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”

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“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”

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“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”

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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

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