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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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

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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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