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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
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