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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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

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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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