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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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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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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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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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