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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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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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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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Syllables govern the world.

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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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