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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.

Bertrand Russell

I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Mistake Science
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Intelligence Prepare Present
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Death Happiness Love True
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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People Secret Virtue
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself

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