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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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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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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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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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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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