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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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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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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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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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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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