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“With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three i...”
“Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.”
“In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange se...”
“We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insigni...”
“Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our interco...”
“We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of ou...”
“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.”
“It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.”
“When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain c...”
“If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.”
“See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.”
“The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.”
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I ha...”
“At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and do...”
“I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.”
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cu...”
“Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”
“The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.”
“Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.”
“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only...”
