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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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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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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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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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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

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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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

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