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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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To be a champion you must live like one.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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