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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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An index is a great leveller.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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