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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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