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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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I work as my father drank.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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