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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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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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I work as my father drank.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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