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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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