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Book cover for On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Judicious lying is what the world needs. I sometimes think it were even better and safer not to lie at all than to lie injudiciously. An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.
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John Stuart Mill
“A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.”
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Frederick Douglass
“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Arthur Conan Doyle
“There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle
“She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

Herman Melville
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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