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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

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