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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see 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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Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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