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Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

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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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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

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