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| He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage |
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| Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside. |
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| Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. |
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| Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned |
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| Hell is paved with good intentions, not bad ones |
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| Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. |
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| Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse |
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| Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo |
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| How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. |
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| Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. |
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| I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. |
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| I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing. |
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| I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence. |
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| I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary |
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| I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. |
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| I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands. |
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| I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. |
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