I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

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If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

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