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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
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