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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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Fashions are induced epidemics.

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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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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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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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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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All Artists are Anarchists.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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