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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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