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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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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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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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