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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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All progress means war with society.

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