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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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