"It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
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"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."
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"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself."
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"We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us."
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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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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
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"The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one."
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"Those who understand evil pardon it."
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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
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"Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable."
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"In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage."
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"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."
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"It is the first duty of every man not to be poor."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
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"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity."
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"Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another."
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"If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate."
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"The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some."
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