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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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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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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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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

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When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

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Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

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