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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

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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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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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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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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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