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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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