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A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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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 an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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