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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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Brains are not everything.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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