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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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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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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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