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"Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor."
"Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject."
"I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire."
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."
"Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries."
"The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism."
"The most anxious man in a prison is the governor."
"The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer."
"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."
"Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that"
"A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures."
"I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism."
"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."
"Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated."
"A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit."
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles."
"A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again."
"The worst sin... is... to be indifferent."
"The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom."