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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Most people are boring and stupid.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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