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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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It is what we fear that happens to us.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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