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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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