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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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