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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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Syllables govern the world.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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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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