Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

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It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

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All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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