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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

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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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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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