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If there is a conflict between the security of the sovereign state and the security of the human commonwealth, the human commonwealth comes first. If there is a conflict between the well-being of the nation and the well-being of humanity, the well-being of humanity comes first. If there is a conflict between the needs of this generation and the needs of all later generations, the needs of the later generations come first. If there is a conflict between public edict and private conscience, private conscience comes first. If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. Norman Cousins		Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. Gerald Brenan, CBE

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	Gerald Brenan, CBE
	Gerald Brenan, CBE (1894 - 1987) was a British writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village . He was awarded a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in Spain. Read More

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The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying ourselves.