Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.


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Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason ...
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through eithe...
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated...
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi...
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind ...
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to ap...
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it b...
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fightin...
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Logic is like the sword
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond it...
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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he pro...
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The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
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A hen is only a egg's way of making another egg.
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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ...
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is ...
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he no...
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