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"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."
"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil."
"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"
"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
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