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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

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The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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