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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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