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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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Paradoxes are the only truths.

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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

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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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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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