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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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Property is organized robbery.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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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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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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