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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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I want to be all used up when I die.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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

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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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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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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

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

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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