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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

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