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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

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Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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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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This souls'prison we call England.

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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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