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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Science is the record of dead religions.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Punctuality is the thief of time.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic.
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