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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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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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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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