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“Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.”
“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
“A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.”
“Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.”
“Where it is a duty to worship the Sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”
“God created sex. Priests created marriage.”
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ”
“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.”
“Success has killed more men than bullets.”
“Either war is obsolete or men are.”
“When a girl ceases to blush,she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.”
“The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
“All socialism involves slavery.”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
“Money's the wise man's religion.”
“Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.”
“God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.”
“It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. 'Tis a woman's whole existence.”
“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.”
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