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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people. That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
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It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
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Citizenship? We have none!
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Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man, it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.
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Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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