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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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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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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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