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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
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Religion is caught, not taught.
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