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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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