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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

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General consultant to mankind.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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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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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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