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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can’t do something.