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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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

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It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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This souls'prison we call England.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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