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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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