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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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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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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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Altogether too many sheep

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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