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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

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Stimulate the phagocytes.

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