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This souls'prison we call England.

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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