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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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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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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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