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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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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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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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

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