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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

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Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

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