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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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