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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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