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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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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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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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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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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

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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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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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