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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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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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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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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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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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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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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

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