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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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