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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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Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
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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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Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
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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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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
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