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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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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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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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