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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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

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