"You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could."
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"God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit."
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"You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life."
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"A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith."
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"For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come."
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"I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen."
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"Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first."
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"If parents would only realize how they bore their children."
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"In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons."
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"No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be."
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"The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister."
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"The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it."
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"A great social reformer."
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"Fashions are induced epidemics."
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"Hell is not all paved with bad intentions."
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"Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong."
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"The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations."
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"It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it."
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"Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used."
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"Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major."
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