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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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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 have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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