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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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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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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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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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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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