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There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

Used every man according to his capacity.

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.