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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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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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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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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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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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Any belief worth having must survive doubt

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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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