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

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

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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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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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