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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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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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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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