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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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