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“Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.”

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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women…

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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

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When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to…

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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

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Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles…

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Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes,…

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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

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I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps.

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It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

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Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.

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My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives…

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