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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their…
— Florence Nightingale
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Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in…
— Unknown Author
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection…
— Nellie Melba
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole…
— Bertrand Russell
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave…
— Henry James
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Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift…
— Virginia Woolf
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow!…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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