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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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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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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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