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No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

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Havelock Ellis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1859
Born: February 2
Died: 1939
Died: July 8
Physician
Psychologist
Writer
Henry Havelock Ellis
H. Havelock Ellis
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the name of a thing.
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There is nothing more fragile than civilization.
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Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
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Liberty is always unfinished business
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.
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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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