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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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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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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

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