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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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