Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity.

Graham Greene

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It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity why it was that the pulse of his brother's fear went on and on, when Francis was now where he had always been told there was no more terror and no more--darkness.

Graham Greene

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I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

Graham Greene

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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Graham Greene

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The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

Graham Greene

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We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

Graham Greene

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