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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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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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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

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

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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