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“Charity ... has always been an expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.”
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“Nature abhors ... a virgin — a frozen asset.”
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“The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools!”
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“Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart — and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.”
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“Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.”
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“... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.”
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“There are murders as subtle as a turned eye.”
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“... I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.”