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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
[ Animals ]
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
[ Animals ]
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
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An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
[ Home ]
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The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
[ Christianity ]
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
[ Christianity ]
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
[ Argument ]
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
[ Evil ]
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
[ Understanding ]
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
[ Pleasure ]
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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