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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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Morality is not respectability.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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