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 | "The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a
hundred years before he is born." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated
our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if
they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in
human form." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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| "Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of
the majority." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason
for being happy except that they are so." | |
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Found in the topic Cause.
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| "The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt
have been small states?Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan
England." | |
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Found in the topic Nation.
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| "What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits
from unequal earnings." | |
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Found in the topic Communism.
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| "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due." | |
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Found in the topic Interest.
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| "A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by
common hatred of its neighbors." | |
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Found in the topic Delusion.
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| "Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably
never happened and those which do not matter." | |
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Found in the topic History.
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| "It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed,
when that little wisdom is its own." | |
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Found in the topic Astonish.
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| "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of
vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion." | |
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Found in the topic Dictators.
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| "Benedict Nightingale speaking of Dean Inge: [William Inge] handles
symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing
care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a
terrible clang." | |
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Found in the topic Symbolism.
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