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I want to be all used up when I die.

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The harder I work the more I live.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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

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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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