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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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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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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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