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

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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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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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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Better never than late.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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