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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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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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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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Better never than late.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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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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