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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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