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

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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