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To be natural is such

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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People who count their chickens

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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The very essence of love

The very essence of love is uncertainty.
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We teach people how to

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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But what is the difference

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
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The fact is, that civilization

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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To be good, according to

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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The English country gentleman galloping

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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I sometimes think that God,

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
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Man is a rational animal

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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