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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

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