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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

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

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