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It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

It is not my object here to sketch the future of marriage and sex-relations generally—a subject which is now being dealt with very effectively from many sides; but only to insist on our using our good sense in the whole matter, and refusing any longer to be bound by senseless pre-judgments.

So, you may be thinking, if dualism is the view that there are two ultimate sorts of stuff, mind and matter, probably we also find a doctrine that says there is only matter, and another that holds that there is nothing but mind. And you're quite right. The first is called materialism, the second idealism (not mentalism), and both have plenty of history. The

You can't trust vampires...Trust me.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

having learned a long time ago that the best way to handle unwanted men in public is to ignore them completely.

Perhaps no politician could have pleased him, for his hero was the saintly Mahatma Gandhi.

and a hundred savage painted Indians ran howling down upon the inn yard.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

Foster's–Australian for beer.

The beer that made Milwaukee famous.

LS/MFT–Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.

"Shine, Shine, save poor me!I'll give you all the pussy a Shine can see."Shine says, "Now pussy's good, but pussy don't last—Shine's going to save his own black ass."And Shine swam on.

I think you're some kind of deviated prevert, and I think General Ripper found out about your preversion and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.

I belong to that highly respectable tribeWhich is known as the Shabby Genteel…Too proud to beg, too honest to steal.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.

Like the best wine… that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Grammar makes the difference between feeling you're nuts and feeling your nuts.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

All the world is queer save me and thee; and sometimes I think thee is a little queer.

All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.

Television? No good will come of this device. The word is half Greek and half Latin.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another.

Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato?