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Edward Carpenter

"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."

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Amber Hurdle

"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

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"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"

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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

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"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

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"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"

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"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

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"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"

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Amber Hurdle

"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."

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Amber Hurdle

"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."

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"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
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"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."
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"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."
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"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
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"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
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"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
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"We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day."
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"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"
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"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."
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