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Hurrah For Revolution And More Cannon-shot! A Beggar Upon Horseback Lashes A Beggar On Foot. Hurrah For Revolution And Cannon Come Again! The Beggars Have Changed Places, But The Lash Goes On.

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Hurrah For Revolution And More Cannon-shot! A Beggar Upon Horseback Lashes A Beggar On Foot. Hurrah For Revolution And Cannon Come Again! The Beggars Have Changed Places, But The Lash Goes On.

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Virtue Consists, Not In Abstaining From Vice, But In Not Desiring It.

A Thing That Nobody Believes Cannot Be Proved Too Often.

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I Can't Turn Your Soul On. Leave Me Those Feelings; And You Can Take Away The Voice And The Face. They Are Not You.

Deep Knowledge Is Not Knowledge Of The Thing Itself, But Knowledge Of A Thing Like The Thing. Then, You Gain Not One Knowledge, But Two Knowledges. Of The Thing. And Of The Original Thing With Is Like The Thing. Which Is The Barbarism Of The Privileged Class.

Experience Fails To Teach Where There Is No Desire To Learn.

Imagination Is The Beginning Of Creation.

When We Want To Read Of The Deeds That Are Done For Love, Whither Do We Turn? To The Murder Column.

All Problems Are Finally Scientific Problems.

Taking All The Round Of Professions And Occupations, You Will Find That Every Man Is The Worse For Being Poor; And The Doctor Is A Specially Dangerous Man When Poor.

A Critic Recently Described Me, With Deadly Acuteness, As Having 'a Kindly Dislike Of My Fellow-creatures.' Perhaps Dread Would Have Been Nearer The Mark Than Dislike; For Man Is The Only Animal Of Which I Am Thoroughly And Cravenly Afraid.

Without Danger I Cannot Be Great. That Is How I Pay For Abel's Blood. Danger And Fear Follow My Steps Everywhere. Without Them Courage Would Have No Sense. And It Is Courage, Courage, Courage That Raises The Blood Of Life To Crimson Splendor.

The World Is Populated In The Main By People Who Should Not Exist

If Pity Is Akin To Love, Gratitude Is Akin To The Other Thing.

All Great Truths Begin As Blasphemies.

All Roads End At The Grave, Which Is The Gate To Nothingness.

You See Things; And You Say, ‘why?’ But I Dream Things That Never Were; And I Say, ‘why Not?

Americans Adore Me And Will Go On Adoring Me Until I Say Something Nice About Them.

Whether You Think Jesus Was God Or Not, You Must Admit He Was A First-rate Political Economist.

Physically There Is Nothing To Distinguish Human Society From The Farm-yard Except That Children Are More Troublesome And Costly Than Chickens And Calves And That Men And Women Are Not So Completely Enslaved As Farm Stock.

He Who Confuses Political Liberty With Freedom And Political Equality With Similarity Has Never Thought For Five Minutes About Either.

It Is Monstrous That Custom Should Force Us To Display Our Faces Ostentatiously, However Worn And Wrinkled And Mean They May Be, Whilst Carefully Concealing All Our Other Parts, However Shapely And Well Preserved.

Some Persons, By Hating Vice Too Much, Come To Love Men Too Little. Hatred Is Self-punishment. Hatred Is The Cowards Revenge For Being Intimidated.

Those Who Understand The Steam Engine And The Electric Telegraph Spend Their Lives In Trying To Replace Them With Something Better.

The Greatest Of Evils And The Worst Of Crimes Is Poverty.

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I Am Oppressed With A Dread Of Living Forever. That Is The Only Disadvantage Of Vegetarianism.

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The Anti-vivisector Does Not Deny That Physiologists Must Make Experiments And Even Take Chances With New Methods. He Says That They Must Not Seek Knowledge By Criminal Methods, Just As They Must Not Make Money By Criminal Methods. He Does Not Object To Galileo Dropping Cannon Balls From The Top Of The Leaning Tower Of Pisa; But He Would Object To Shoving Off Two Dogs Or American Tourists.

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