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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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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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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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