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- There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and…
- It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be…
- The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
- The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
- The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the…
- It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have…
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