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There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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

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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Stimulate the phagocytes.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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