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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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