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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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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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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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