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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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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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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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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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Whisky is liquid sunshine.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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Paradoxes are the only truths.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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My way of joking is to tell the truth

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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