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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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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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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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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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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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