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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
— George A. Moore
Tags: selfish, men, mind, world

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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
— George A. Moore
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I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!
— George A. Moore
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
— George A. Moore
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Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.
— George A. Moore
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
— George A. Moore
Tags: heaven, hell, feeling
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