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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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