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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

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