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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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