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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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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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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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