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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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