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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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

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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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