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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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