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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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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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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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