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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

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

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At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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