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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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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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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

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The harder I work the more I live.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

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

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