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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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Better never than late.

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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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All progress means war with society.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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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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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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