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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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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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Brains are not everything.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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