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It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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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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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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