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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

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