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Bertrand Russell Quotes

«No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.»
«Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.»
«I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.»
«If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.»
«Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.»
«Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.»
«Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.»
«No great achievement is possible without persistent work.»
«Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.»
«We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.»