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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.