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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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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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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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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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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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