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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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Brains are not everything.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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