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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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Only poor men get hanged.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

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What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

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Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

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'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

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