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"As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting."
"The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
"Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat."
"Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination."
"Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety."
"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
"Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man."
"All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds."
"Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."
"History, sir, will tell lies as usual."
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
"What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive."
"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another."
"Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled."
"Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime."
"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."
"As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish."
"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes."