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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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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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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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