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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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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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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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