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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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I want to be all used up when I die.

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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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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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