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Property is organized robbery.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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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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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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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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