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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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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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If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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