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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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Better never than late.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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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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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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