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“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Fear

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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

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