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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

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