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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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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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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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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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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

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