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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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He who has never hoped can never despair

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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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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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

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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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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

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