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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

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All truth is not to be told at all times.

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

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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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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

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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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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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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

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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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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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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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