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Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

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

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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