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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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General consultant to mankind.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

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German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

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