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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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