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When men and women pick one another up for just a bit of fun, they find they’ve picked up more than they bargained for, because men and women have a top story as well as a ground floor, and you can’t have the one without the other.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Heartbreak House

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Man and Superman (1903) act 3; see Emerson 132:4
When the wooden idol does not answer the peasant's prayer, he beats it: when the flesh and blood idol does not satisfy the civilized man, he cuts its head off.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Getting Married
When we learn to sing that Britons never will be masters we shall make an end of slavery.
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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