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"England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
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"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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