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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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The harder I work the more I live.

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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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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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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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

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