Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
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When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.Samuel Butler, the Younger
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.
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The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.
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Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain. Thus it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first, and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
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