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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Walk! Not bloody likely.
We admit that when the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible we crucified it.
We all profess the deepest regard for liberty; but no sooner does anyone claim to exercise it than we declare with horror that we are in favor of liberty but not of licence, and demand indignantly whether true freedom can ever mean freedom to do wrong, to preach sedition and immorality, to utter blasphemy. Yet this is exactly what liberty does mean.
We are a nation of governesses.
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good. What would he say now?
We do not seek for truth in the abstract. . . .
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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