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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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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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He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

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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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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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