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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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