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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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

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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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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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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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