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- There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have…
- A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to…
- If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
- People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
- Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not…
- The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
- I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be…
- The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
- Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
- Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
- I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power…
- When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
- Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children…
- At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians…
- Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
- You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell…
- People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
- Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
- I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
- We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade…
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