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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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All Artists are Anarchists.

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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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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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