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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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