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

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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Better never than late.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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