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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
All truth is not to be told at all times.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.