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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

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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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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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