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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

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It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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

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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create 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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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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