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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

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