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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

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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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Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

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All Artists are Anarchists.

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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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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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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