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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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Altogether too many sheep

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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