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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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