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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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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 pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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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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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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