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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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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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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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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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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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