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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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Morality is not respectability.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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