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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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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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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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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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