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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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