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

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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