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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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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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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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