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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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Divorces are made in heaven.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Time is a waste of money.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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