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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

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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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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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