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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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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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Property is organized robbery.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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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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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

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