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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

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