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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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