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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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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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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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

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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

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