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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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