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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. View quote
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. View quote
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. View quote
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. View quote
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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery. View quote
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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. View quote
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The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown. View quote
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. View quote
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. (George Bernard Shaw)
If parents would only realize how they bore their children. View quote
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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. View quote
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. View quote
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. View quote
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. View quote
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. View quote
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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. View quote
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. View quote
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. View quote
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. (George Bernard Shaw)
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. View quote
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This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. View quote
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? View quote
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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum. View quote
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