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Bertrand Russell Quotes: What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.
         

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.


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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.

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.



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