"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."

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"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."

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"The people who have really made history are the martyrs."

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"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."

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"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."

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"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."

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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."

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"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."

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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."

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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."

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