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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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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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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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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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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

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