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But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase the sum of liberty, and a general permission may diminish it. It does not follow, as these...more

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I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most high...more

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Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, imperatives? Why couldn’t one be free? Really free? Guar...more

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They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why "They" were nor what "This" was. Some...more

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And she wanted to be free. It wasn't Mr. Brumley she wanted; he was but a means — if indeed he was a means — to an end. The person she wanted, the per...more

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She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter of the man friend and nothing else in the world is...more