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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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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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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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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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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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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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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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