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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Why can’t people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it’s sappy?

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.