"I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals."
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"Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse."
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"There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school."
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"The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false."
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"How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?"
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"Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away."
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"To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible."
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"I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary"
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"My way of joking is to tell the truth"
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"There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough."
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"Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex."
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"German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen."
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"The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes."
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"When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves."
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"No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it."
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"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something."
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"Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing."
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"Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool."
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"Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen."
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