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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

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