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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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Altogether too many sheep

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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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