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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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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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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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