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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

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The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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