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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

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All progress means war with society.

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

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