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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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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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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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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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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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

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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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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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