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| Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance |
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| Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. |
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| Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. |
| Dancing |
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| Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. |
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| Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence |
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| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. |
| Democracy |
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| Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
| Democracy |
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| Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class. |
| Democracy |
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| Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
| Competence; Democracy |
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| Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. |
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| Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. |
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| Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury. |
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| 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. |
| Poverty; Society |
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| Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. |
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| Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond. |
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| Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. |
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| Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young |
| Education; Teachers and teaching |
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| England and America are two countries divided by a common language. |
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