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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

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A mathematician, it has been suggested, might pray to xn.

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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

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The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

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Experience is a good teacher, though her fees are terribly high.

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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

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Science and philosophy can not be kept in water-tight compartments.

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

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No scientific discovery is without its religious and moral implications.

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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

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Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

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What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

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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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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

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The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and the passive.

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Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

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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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The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

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