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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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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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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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