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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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