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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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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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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

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