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Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted, in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest, at the command, of his head.
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Loyalty. Should be one of the Commandments.
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We all have quite definite ideas about what is normal. Let's stick to those ideas and let psychiatry keep its definitions of modern man out of our vocabulary. We need some norms to go by in order to communicate without misunderstanding.
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Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is'fat'worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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The woman is fickle.
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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
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