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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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