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"Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy."
"The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight."
"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."
"Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery."
"To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad."
"To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly."
"We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?"
"Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice."
"Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another."
"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
"If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it."
"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."
"That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms."
"My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience."
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out."
"Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."
"Happiness and Beauty are by-products."
"Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense."
"The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else."