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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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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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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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