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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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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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