"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
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"Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence"
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"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
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"Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn."
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"Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings."
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"Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend."
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"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."
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"If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."
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"Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do"
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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
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"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"
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"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
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"The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls."
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"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions."
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside."
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"The 100% American is 99% idiot."
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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
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"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
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