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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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