"My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy."
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"If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority."
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"Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention."
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"First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it."
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"The philosopher is Nature's pilot."
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"Stop being Jews and start being human beings."
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"Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination."
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"Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft"
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"The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization."
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"Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty."
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"Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment."
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"Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights."
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"Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place."
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"The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness."
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"When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars."
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance."
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"My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt."
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"Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground."
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"To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy."
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"Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop."
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