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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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Property is organized robbery.

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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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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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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