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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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