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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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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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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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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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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

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