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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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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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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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