If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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