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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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Brains are not everything.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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A great social reformer.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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