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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

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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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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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Altogether too many sheep

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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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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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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