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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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Any belief worth having must survive doubt

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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