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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

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