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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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