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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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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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