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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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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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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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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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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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