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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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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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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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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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