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There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.

— Arthur Balfour

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Most terrible of all the terrible Turks.

The General Strike has taught the working classes more in four days than years of talking could have done.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

The Foundations of Belief (1895)

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