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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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An index is a great leveller.

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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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General consultant to mankind.

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