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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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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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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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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

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Fear is choosing the safe course

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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