"It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly."
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"The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding."
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"When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones."
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"Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself."
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"A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea."
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"Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e"
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"Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist."
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"While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells."
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"I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands ."
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"It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!"
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"The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm."
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"What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate."
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"Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty."
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"My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often."
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"My only policy is to profess evil and do good."
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"Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor."
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"We must reform society before we can reform ourselves."
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"All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity."
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"Like fingerprints, all marriages are different."
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"Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness"
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