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Greek is the embodiment of the...

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

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Courtship, properly understood...

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

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Reproduction is so primitive a...

Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

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I regard sex as the central pr...

I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sexЂ'with the racial questions that rest on itЂ'stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

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The modesty of women, which, i...

The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

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The second great channel throu...

The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educatedЂ'of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

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Liberty is always unfinished b...

Liberty is always unfinished business

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So far as business and money a...

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

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Sexual pleasure, wisely used a...

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

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Charm is a woman's strength ju...

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

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The great writer finds style a...

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

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We cannot remain consistent wi...

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

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To make a mountain out of a mo...

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

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Man lives by imagination....

Man lives by imagination.

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Here, where we reach the spher...

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

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All progress in literary style...

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.

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There is held to be no surer t...

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

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It is curious how there seems ...

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

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One can know nothing of giving...

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

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Beauty is the child of love....

Beauty is the child of love.

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