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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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Heartbreak is life educating us.

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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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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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