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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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Remember that I too am mortal.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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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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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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