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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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I want to be all used up when I die.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

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Better never than late.

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

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Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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