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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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