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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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General consultant to mankind.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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I work as my father drank.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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