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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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Altogether too many sheep

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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