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

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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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 the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

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