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The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
[ Gardening and Gardens ]
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
[ Language ]
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
[ Crime and Criminals ]
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
[ Right and Rightness ]
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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
[ Debt ]
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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
[ Joy ]
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
[ Riches ]
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
[ Morality ]
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
[ Prison ]
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
[ Cynics and Cynicism ]
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
[ Idols ]
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
[ Forgiveness ]
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
[ Quarrels ]
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
[ Gossip ]
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
[ Population ]
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
[ Secrets ]
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
[ Tragedies ]
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
[ Food and Eating ]
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
[ Marriage ]
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
[ Religion ]
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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
[ Truth ]
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
[ Virtue ]
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
[ Royalty ]
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
[ Cooperation ]
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
[ The future ]
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We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
[ Faith ]
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
[ Churches ]
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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
[ Madness ]
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
[ Riches ]
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
[ Virtue ]
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
[ Flattery ]
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
[ Duty ]
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When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
[ Villains ]
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
[ Song and Singing ]
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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
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You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
[ Patriotism ]
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
[ Youth ]
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