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- All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
- The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
- Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say,…
- Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite…
- In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest…
- Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
- We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up…
- I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
- All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
- Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
- ...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
- Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
- All poetry is misrepresentation.
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