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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It...more

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Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made i...more

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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or

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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 Septem...more

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See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental tre...more

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[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their...more

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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

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[On marriage and permanent attach

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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write th...more

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Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to dis...more