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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

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An index is a great leveller.

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Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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