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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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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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Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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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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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

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