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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

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

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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General consultant to mankind.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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

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