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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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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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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

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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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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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

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