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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

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Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

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All Artists are Anarchists.

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