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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

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The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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