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

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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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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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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