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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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