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

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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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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

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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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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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