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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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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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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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