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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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