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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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