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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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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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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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The harder I work the more I live.

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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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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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