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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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

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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

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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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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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