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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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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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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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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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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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