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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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