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Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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General consultant to mankind.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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