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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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Morality is not respectability.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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