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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

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