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An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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

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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

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