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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
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The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33 -
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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