"Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out."
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"The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage."
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"It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it."
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"Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks."
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"If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!"
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"An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress."
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"How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' ."
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"An index is a great leveller."
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"Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication."
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"All Artists are Anarchists."
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"Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself."
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"A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats."
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"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."
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"[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory."
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"Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better."
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"There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous."
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"Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists."
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"What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing."
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"You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all."
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"Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class."
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