The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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

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

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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.

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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

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