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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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