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All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not read more
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice read more
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize read more
The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and
aversation towards society in any man, hath read more
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and
aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the
savage beast.
