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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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