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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys 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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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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Morality is not respectability.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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