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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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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 am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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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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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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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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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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