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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

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During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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