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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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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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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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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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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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To be a champion you must live like one.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

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