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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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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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