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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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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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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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