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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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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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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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