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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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Syllables govern the world.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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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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I never expect a soldier to think.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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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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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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