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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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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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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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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

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

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

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