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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

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My way of joking is to tell the truth

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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