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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

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Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.

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You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep.

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'Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete. For even the alligator dies in his mail, and t...

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There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political...

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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

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The Cave of Jeremiah is in this part. In its lamentable recesses he composed his lamentable Lamentations.

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The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

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