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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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