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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
[ Heartbreak ]
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
[ Fellowship ]
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
[ Taxes and Taxation ]
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A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
[ Happiness ]
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
[ Vegetarianism ]
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
[ Interest ]
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A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
[ Dance and Dancing ]
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
[ Hell ]
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
[ Pessimism ]
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
[ Truth ]
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All problems are finally scientific problems.
[ Problems ]
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
[ Professions and Professionals ]
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All progress means war with society.
[ Progress ]
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
[ Sanity ]
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
[ Morality ]
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
[ Dissatisfaction ]
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
[ Assassination ]
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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
[ Virtue ]
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Better never than late.
[ Punctuality ]
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
[ Payment ]
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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Common people do not pray; they only beg.
[ Prayer ]
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
[ Democracy ]
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
[ Giving ]
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
[ Uncategorised ]
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
[ Youth ]
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
[ Experience ]
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
[ Fashion ]
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
[ Forgiveness ]
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
[ Gambling ]
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
[ Hatred ]
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
[ Motives ]
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
[ Hope ]
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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
[ Music ]
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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
[ Intentions ]
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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
[ Contradiction ]
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
[ Books - Reading ]
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
[ Humankind ]
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I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
[ Speech ]
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
[ Convalescence ]
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
[ Middle Class ]
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
[ Quotations ]
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I want to be all used up when I die.
[ Death and Dying ]
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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
[ Atheism ]
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