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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as inde

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. – Rebecca West

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Trust
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. – Rebecca West

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Women
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Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. – Theodore Schroeder

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Censorship

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. – David Ben-Gurion

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Censorship

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. – Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764

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Censorship

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Censorship

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. – Mark Twain

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I dont believe in social equality, and they know it. – George Smathers

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The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson

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