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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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Education is an admirable thing.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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