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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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