Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEYIt is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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