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“Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”

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Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws… There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased…

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