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I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citize...more

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your...more

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Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistake...more

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lea...more

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I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those co...more

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The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been abl...more

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.