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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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