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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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America is one long expectoration.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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