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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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