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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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War does not decide who is right but who is left.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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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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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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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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