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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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