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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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