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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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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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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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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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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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