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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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