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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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

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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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