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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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Altogether too many sheep

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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