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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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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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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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