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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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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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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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