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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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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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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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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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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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