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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

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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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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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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

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