"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."
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"I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there."
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"The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight."
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"It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling."
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"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."
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"Virtue is insufficient temptation."
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"What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil."
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"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned."
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"I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that."
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"I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot."
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"Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species."
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"The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes."
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"In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will."
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"Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake."
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"I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation."
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"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."
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"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor."
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"It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period."
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"If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters."
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"Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty."
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