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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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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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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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