Top 47 Norman Douglas Quotes
#1. You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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#2. Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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#3. Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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#4. How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
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#5. The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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#6. Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
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#7. Mr. Keith, by means of some mysterious formula, soon procured two seats in the front row, the occupants of which smilingly took their places among the crowd at the back.
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#8. Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
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#9. No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
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#10. There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
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#11. The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
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#12. There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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#14. It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
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#15. A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.
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#17. Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.
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#18. He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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#19. The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
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#20. Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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#21. Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
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#22. I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
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#23. What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
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#24. It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
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#25. Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.
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#26. The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
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#27. There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.
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#28. If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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#29. The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.
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#30. Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
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#31. It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
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#32. The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
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#33. Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
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#34. To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
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#35. Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
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#36. How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.
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#37. I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
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#38. The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
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#39. One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
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#40. A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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#41. You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
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#42. You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
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#43. Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
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#44. People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
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#45. The pine stays green in winter ... wisdom in hardship.
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#46. Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.
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#47. They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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