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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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