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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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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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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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