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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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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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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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