"The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated."
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"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
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"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."
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"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty."
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"Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone."
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"Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices."
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"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."
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"I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness."
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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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"Better never than late."
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"If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog."
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"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
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"To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination."
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"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."
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"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
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"There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder."
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"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
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"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
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