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"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
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"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."

"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."

"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."

"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."

"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings."

"But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system."

"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."

"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."

"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."
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