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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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