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

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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

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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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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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