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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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

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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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