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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
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Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.
[ Equality ]
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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
[ Debt ]
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
[ Fashion ]
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
[ Perfection ]
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Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
[ Respectability ]
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This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
[ Women ]
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
[ Danger ]
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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
[ Doctors ]
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
[ Doctors ]
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
[ Economy ]
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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
[ Speech ]
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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
[ Conversation ]
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You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
[ Patriotism ]
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
[ Patriotism ]
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
[ Patriotism ]
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
[ Growth ]
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
[ Manners ]
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
[ Democracy ]
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power.'' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do;'' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me.'' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
[ Democracy ]
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